Implementing LDAP Directory Hierarchy with Relations

Abstract

LDAP, is one of the emerging technology which can provide directory services to applications ranging from email systems to distributed system managemednt tools. However, the reference implementationa of LDAP from University of Michigan needs a lot of enhancements for being a reliable and Scaleable enterprise directory service. This paper presents a design and implementation to use a relational database ad a robust, acaleable data store for LDAP dirctory information. One of the sailent feature of our solution is to be able to implement LDAP hierarchies with relational tables efficiently.